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April 1, 2013 | By USCIRF Chair Katrina Lantos Swett
Even as we prepare to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, European society's dark past of bigotry haunts our present
The following op-ed appeared in The Guardian on March 31, 2013.
As fellow Americans... Read More
3/18/13: Roll Call -- Bahrain's Choice
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March 18, 2013| By: Katrina Lantos Swett and M. Zuhdi Jasser
The following op-ed appeared in Roll Call on March 15, 2013.
While the world remains riveted to Egypt"s challenges and Syria"s travails, much is also at stake in Bahrain, a strategically vital Gulf nation... Read More
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March 11, 2013 | By M. Zuhdi Jasser
The following appeared in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs on March 11, 2013.
From Somalian anarchy to Eritrean and Sudanese tyranny and civil strife, the Horn of Africa has long been a turbulent region. A notable... Read More
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February 14, 2013 | By Katrina Lantos Swett and Catherine Cosman
The following op-ed appeared in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs on Wednesday, February 13, 2013.
"Russia is now a police state."
We heard those words from civil society activists in late... Read More
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January 22, 2013 | By Katrina Lantos Swett and M. Zuhdi Jasser
The following op-ed appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Sunday January 20, 2013.
On Wednesday, the United States observed its annual National Religious Freedom Day. This day... Read More
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January 14, 2013 | By Katrina Lantos Swett
The following appeared in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs on January 14, 2013.
Former Soviet prisoner and refusenik Natan Sharansky, Burmese human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi, and Iranian... Read More
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12/26/2012 | By Katrina Lantos Swett
The following Washington Post On Faith opinion waspublished on December 24, 2012.
In a poem that became one of America"s most beautiful Christmas carols, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "I heard the bells on Christmas day, their old... Read More
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December 20, 2012 | By Katrina Lantos Swett
Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has passed a succession of anti-human rights laws curtailing freedom of expression, association, and assembly. Parliament might even pass a proposed blasphemy law that clearly would violate... Read More
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December 19, 2012 | By: Mary Ann Glendon and Azizah al-Hibri
The following commentary appeared in The National Interest on December 18, 2012.
When most people picture Western Europe, they envision well-established democracies where fundamental... Read More
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July 6,2011| By: William Shaw and Nina Shea
The following op-ed appeared in The Hill on July 6, 2011.
On July 9, the world will witness the birth of a new nation and a triumph for religious freedom and related rights. The people of South Sudan chose independence in a... Read More